Vanessa Morgan’s Son Plays Choni’s Child on ‘Riverdale’ Series Finale

Vanessa Morgan‘s 2-year-old son, River, served his mom wrap up her time participating in Toni on Riverdale.

For the duration of the series finale, which aired on Wednesday, August 23, Betty (Lili Reinhart) narrated Cheryl (Madeleine Petsch) and Toni’s journey soon after they remaining Riverdale. In a scene from the flash forward, the pair hold their adopted son, who was performed by Morgan’s real boy or girl.

Morgan, 31, introduced her pregnancy in July 2020, 6 months soon after exchanging vows with Michael Kopech. Soon soon after Morgan verified that she was expecting, news broke that the pair experienced named it quits. She gave delivery in January 2021.

Due to the fact then, Morgan has remained tight-lipped about her own daily life even though supplying glimpses at her motherhood journey. She is at this time courting James Karnik, who has made appearances with her son in quite a few social media posts.

Even though filming the remaining episodes of Riverdale, Morgan gushed about acquiring River on established with her, crafting through Instagram in June, “Getting to share Riverdale, one particular of the major journeys of my existence, with my son, provides tears to my eyes. I’ll cherish these recollections permanently. ♥️.”

Morgan has also documented her friendship with Petsch, 29, as they performed an onscreen couple over the years. Just after bringing Cheryl and Toni’s love tale to everyday living, Petsch just lately reflected on the bond she fashioned with Morgan.

“Vanessa has been my greatest good friend due to the fact just before the display even commenced. So to participate in her onscreen really like when we have so substantially chemistry was definitely wonderful. What I adore about her is that even in scenes where by we’re just [in the] qualifications, we locate means to make Choni sense genuine and reliable and like they’re truly in really like,” she completely informed Us Weekly in July. “I assume you can seriously see — particularly in the closing few episodes of the period — that what was genuinely vital to us is figuring out what our relationship appears to be like like and producing positive that it feels genuine and persons truly are delighted with it.”

Petsch went on to say that she was thrilled with how Cheryl’s tale arrived to an conclusion.

“It’s extra to me about expressing goodbye to these folks who manufactured the exhibit [and] set their enjoy into it. So that was very tricky,” she continued. “But I know it was time to put the purple lipstick absent and say goodbye to Cheryl. So, I’m psyched to say goodbye to Cheryl [and] I think her tale has been accomplished definitely effectively. I think individuals will be happy with it.”